MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe: I told Murdoch I didn't have an affair with his wife

Ex-MySpace chief Chris DeWolfe reveals he reassured Rupert Murdoch that
rumours that he had an affair with Wendi Deng were false

Ex-MySpace chief Chris DeWolfe told Rupert Murdoch rumours that he had an affair with Wendi Deng were false

By Telegraph Staff

12:35PM GMT 18 Nov 2013

Chris DeWolfe, the former chief executive of MySpace, said he told Rupert Murdoch that talk that he had an affair with his wife was false.

The technology entrepreneur, who co-founded MySpace and now runs mobile gaming company SGN, gained unwanted attention after claims of an affair with Mr Murdoch’s estranged wife Wendi Deng, whom he is now divorcing.

Mr DeWolfe said the rumours were false but that they had been circulating for years and that he had discussed them with Mr Murdoch while at News Corp.

“I didn’t think much of it [the allegations]. I was actually more taken aback that they were getting divorced,” he said.

“My mum asked me about it – for some reason she didn’t see that before, or maybe she forgot. But I’d already talked about it with Rupert. He knows it’s not true… I worked for him and he came to me and said, 'Ignore this stuff, it happens all the time’.”